The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12

Neebe and other notables OF the |. A. A. !
took horses, and in person scattered the |
circular broadcast, not failing to leave
copies with the rank and file of the In
teInatOnal armed sections" gathering
in GreiPs ball, No. 81 West Lake street. That
the circular gave the impulse to the action
OF the armed sections at this Monday
night meeting, and inspired the adop-
ton OF the plan OF bomb throwing
agreed upon, is apparent from the fact
that its contents were first fully discussed.
Then the complete detailed plan OF the
particular method of inaugurating
THE WHOLESALE MURDER
for which they originally organized was
formally considered and adopted, the time
for the slaughter being left for the Arbeitcr
Zeitung to designate by publishing the
signal word "ruhe" (peacc.) This latter
feature was the word Of Adolph Fischer,
who had come to the meeting straight
from the Arbeiter Zcitung, where he had
been assisting Spies and Schwub. That
Fischer was carrying out the plans OF his
superiors appears more clearly from the
circumstances that 1t was he who maneu-
vercd the EARNED sections" out of their
idea of holding the lIaymarket meeting in
and the other leaders had decided.
A darker picture is not to be found in
history than this spectacle OF four-score
murdcrous conspirators in the wretched
saloon basement, rcmorselpssly plotingthc
massacre that occurred not 100 yards dis
tant, before another midnight passed.
Rudolph Schnaubclt, the thrower of the
Haymarket bomb was among the eighty
or no
rible meeting. Though adjournment did
not come till long after IL O'Clock, il was
not 7 o'clock next morning, Tuesday,
when Louis Lingg, member OF this iden-
teal EARNED section" opened the chest
OF dynamite that had lain untouched in
his lodgings since four days before. Under
his expert directions, six of the men who
attended the murder meeting Of the pre-
yious night, quickly set to work then and
there filling globuar
SHELLS WITH DYNAMITE.
Early rs was the hour. Fischer was also
at work getting out the hand-bills calling
the llaymarket mass-mecting. The hand
bills last words were: "Worhingmen,
arm yourselves, and appear in full force!"
What Spies, Schwab and the other leaders
We're doing that day may be partly in
ferrcd from the burning appeals for resist
ancc and calls 80 Armsln that appeared
in their newspaper organs that evening.
'Ruhe," penned by Spies own hand,
stared out OF the Arbcitcr Xcitung. After
the papers were off and their editions had
swallowed n hasiy supper, il is known that
| Spies, Parsons. Schwab, Fielden, Fischer
and other ruling spirits, mostly members
| OF the seli-same EARNED sections that held
| the Grcifs hall conclave, went into close
session at the International headquarters
in the Arbcitcr Zeitung building, where
reports by messenger and telephone were
received us the moments sped.
lingg's crew Of bomb-makers were still
asyidiously at work. For some reason he
himself was unable TO remain with them
| all the time, and the evening found him
! Cunng their slow progress. IL was some
time after 7:30 o'clock p.m.-the hour
mentioned for the llaymarkct meeting TO
begn-when Lingg put into little trunk
what bombs were ready-Eomc fifty or six
tyand started with his burden for the
appointed rendezvous, an anarchist :
saloon near by, known rs Nefl's hall, No.
| 5S Claybourn avenue. lie was met on the
way by messenger who had come TO
hurry him along. The trunk WIS left open
in passlgo.way of the saloon, and with
out more ado men began dropping in
quietly, alone or in couples, pocketing a
bomb or two each, and
VANISHED INTO THE DARKNESS.
This celebrity may have somewhat molli-
fed Lingg. but his delay was not the only
stumbling-block Of the reds.
Twenty five thousand people, the an
| archist leaders estimated, would be gath
cred together in the lIaymarkct This was
not On cNlmWgant expectation, when 10,
600 had been 20 easily mgssed near Nc
Cormick's. But fear Of further rioting
kept pretty much everybody at home cX-
ccpt about 1000 men. nearly all Of them
unmislaklbly anarchists. Undoubtedly the
/ smnllncss OF the crowd nude the anarchist
| leaders pause. "Ihe social revolution, ~
backed bynmoboi w0rkmcn 5000 strong.
had changed 10 prospective fight between
/ anarchists alone on one side and the police
IN force on the other. II was evident 10
| the most casual spcctatorin the llaymarkct
| that hitch existed somewhere, and up.
! papnily the meetings managers were all
completely at sea.
The great dim lighted square was q de-
cidCdly uncauny scene with it, scattered
| groups Of gcsticulaiing, trampish looking
occupants lining the sidewalks and pour
ing in aud out of the rickcty surrounding
saloons. The Arbcitcr Iciiung conference
OF leaders had been a long one, aud when
nj last Spies, Parsons, fiCldcn and the rest
reached the llaymarkct square they
seemed bent ON voting game. II will
probably mover he known whether the
evident hcsitancy was cnused by the de-
lay Of
| tfxCg's covrrurn trrs